Clew is the fastest, easiest way to save passages, quotes, and notes from the things you read, watch, and listen to, so you can start discovering connections between everything you save.
Remember the last time you wrote in the margin of a novel, only to finish the book and never see that thought again? How many times have you clipped parts of articles, songs, and podcasts and saved them to a note somewhere, hidden and forgotten?
Clew is a single place for all your highlights, clips, and favorite lines—stored, organized, and searchable in one place. It's a commonplace book that you'll always have with you, easily searchable and synced between all your devices.
Clew helps you connect thoughts across sources, centuries, and media types through powerful tagging and intelligent recommendations.
Start discovering connections between everything you've saved from:
- Books and poems you read
- Movies and TV shows you watch
- Podcasts and audiobooks you listen to
- Songs you love
- Articles you read online or on paper
Simply copy-and-paste text into the app, use the Share extension, or scan book pages and documents with your device's camera to save a new highlight.
Clew makes it easy to sort and search your highlights by source (author, website, etc.), date saved, publication year, genre, keywords, and more.
Build your collection, and watch as you start finding connections and patterns across books, artists, decades, genres, languages, and more.
This is your new favorite place to store, sort, and share clippings from all your favorite media, whether it's a mind-blowing plot twist in a novel, a hilarious quote in a movie or play, a devastating song lyric, a grand discovery in an article, or simply a quirky adjective you can't wait to use in your own writing.
This is Clew.
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Safari Extension — Capture highlights directly from Safari with automatic page title, author, and published date detection. (This is better for webpages than using the share sheet, but you can continue to use whichever you prefer.)
Quick Search — Now, search everything you've saved so that you can quickly jump to any highlight, book, author, song, etc. Use the search button under the main collections list, or tap the title bar of any detail view to "search everything".
Cross-Filtering — When you're looking at a book, webpage, or song's details, you can filter the highlights shown by specific tags. And when you're looking at a specific tag, you can filter by source.
Other New Features
- Song support in widgets
- New highlight row option to show the source
- Settings quick access by tapping the top menu on any detail view
Design Improvements
- Now, you can share highlights with more (or fewer) details and choose from rich text, Markdown, and plain text formatting options. Share to Messages, social media, Notes, journals, and all your other favorite apps.
- Long-press highlights in the list to see an expanded peek at its full details.
- Highlights without a source now show a placeholder icon when you've turned on the setting to show images in the highlights list.
- Improved support for large Dynamic Type
Bug Fixes
- Fix tag color dots not updating after editing a highlight
- Fix lists not refreshing after tag edits
- Fix Mac crash when opening edit sheets
- Fix widget not showing the latest highlight
Version 1.4
The developer, Thomas Twardzik, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Voice Control
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Colour Alone
Reduced Motion
Information
Provider
Thomas Twardzik
Size
25.7 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.